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- From: bm508@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Branimir Dokic)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.culture.african.american
- Subject: Re: OMAR's bio : Jive version
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 07:40:42 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Nov16.161342.28377@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov15.030927.15283@midway.uchicago.edu> <1e55pdINNbvp@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> <1992Nov15.163526.6672@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Reply-To: bm508@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Branimir Dokic)
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- In a previous article, jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mr. Furr) says:
-
-
- >
- >I agree with you completely, Ted, and since none of those socially
- >advanced Solons at Rose-Hulman are likely to put their money where their
- >mouths are, I posted their little racist diatribe to
- >soc.culture.african.american for them. It disgusts me when the trendy
- >subject in campus humor centers around harassment of the hearing impaired
- >and race hatred.
- >
-
-
-
- I'll bet you and Ted Frank were the kind of kids who used to
- enjoy destroying anthills and frying bugs with magnifying glasses.
- You know, immaturely spiteful. I used to be like that too
- but at least I grew up and changed my childish spitefulness.
-
-
- Yep, because of your invite, I went over to soc.culture.african.american
- to see what they'd say about your post. Seems like there was
- no response, eh? Or rather,the only lifeblood of the omar-issue
- was Ted Frank's and your posts. Tell me, did you feel like you
- were kicking a dying horse, trying to get it up to trot even
- though it was the least bit interested in your actions???
-
- Anyway, I don't think that you needed to assume that every
- Soc.culture.African.American would be ballistic over this issue. Sure
- it makes fun of the way some jive-speaking people talk, but is
- it that big of a deal? Look at the [lack of] supportive response you
- got.
-
-
- For sake of comparison, look at something as simple as the Mario
- Brothers video game. Are we to think that, like the jive-filter
- programmer and user, the Mario Brothers programmer(s) take humor
- in the fact that ALL Italians are named Mario and have funny little
- handlebar mustaches and are carpenters who act like bumbling
- idiots, knocking their head into mushrooms and all other kinds
- of things? Hey, we're all differnent and that makes life interesting.
- To this day I hear people speak jive-talk, and I sometimes have
- to ask a person to repeat him/herself because I couldn't understand
- their phrasing. I sometimes hear two people speaking jive-english
- and it's amazing to me that they understand each other. It's
- out there, it's a dialect that is used today, and doggone it,
- it's sometimes funny to me to think that these people, whose snippets
- of conversations I accidentally overhear, understand each other!!
- It amazes me! Yep the jive filter is funny to me, and I can say
- from the bottom of my heart that I am not a racist. You may think
- I am, but it's my opinion that this world will end before
- everyone thinks alike and noone gets offended by someone else.
-
- Anyway, sorry that it rained on your expectant parade of
- band-wagon-jumping soc.culture.A.A'ers.
-
- NOT!!!
-
- Later!
-
- B.
-
- By the way, after reading Omar's response somewhere up there, I
- agree with anyone who thinks that it's time to lay off the
- Omar stories UNLESS...
-
- 1. He gives the nose-up to those previous alt.folklore.college
- posters ho will hopefully try to inform him of his
- annoying behavior. After all, he asked for help.
-
- and/or
-
- 2. Omar in return post some stories about his "attackers" since
- all's fair in love and war.
-
-
-
- Later again!
-
- Send all flames to me! My room has an outside wall and it gets
- cooooold in Cleveland this time of year!
- --
- Branimir Dokic
- Radio-Telivizija-Beograd
-